A woman in her late 50s was taken to hospital after re-entering her burning home early Monday morning. The Calgary Fire Department responded to a house fire on Kincora Drive N.W. at approximately 4:20 a.m. Monday.

Dozens of people in the city’s northeast have been evacuated after a gas line was damaged Monday morning. A Bobcat struck a gas line during an excavation project along the 600 block of 1 Street N.E. around 11:20 a.m.

For the second time in just over two months, firefighters were called to a blaze at a shingle and roofing materials manufacturing plant in southeast Calgary. Crews were deployed just before 1 p.m. to IKO Industries in the 1600 block of 42nd Avenue S.E. after receiving multiple reports of a fire, said fire spokeswoman Carol Henke.

The fire department responded to yet another call of falling debris in downtown Calgary after broken glass dropped from the Bay building on Stephen Avenue Monday night. Fire spokeswoman Carol Henke said firefighters were called to the 200 block of 8th Avenue S.W. at around 7:20 p.m. after broken glass fell from a fourth floor window and smashed on the ground below.

Bricks continue to fall from a downtown Calgary building where the partial failure of an exterior wall saw four city blocks closed to traffic Tuesday. Fire crews installed barricades around the eastern wall of the building at 608 7th Street S.W. overnight Tuesday to protect the public from any falling debris or collapse but some streets around the structure were still off limits.

A quick-thinking school bus driver is being praised by her boss and the fire department after she helped a dozen children escape harm when their school bus caught fire Wednesday morning. The Southland Transportation bus driver was taking elementary and junior high students to Colonel Irvine and Highwood schools shortly after 8 a.m. when she saw smoke coming from the dash and pulled over at a nearby Catholic school.

A man was taken to hospital Wednesday morning after his car crashed through the glass patio enclosure of a lower level apartment unit west of downtown. Police, paramedics and fire crews were called to the 1800 block of 12th Avenue S.W. in the community of Sunalta at around 10:40 a.m. after reports that a vehicle had crashed into a building.

Two people were taken to hospital after being burned while trying to douse a fire Wednesday morning. Firefighters were called to a two-storey home in the 6700 block of 26th Avenue N.E. in Pineridge at around 1:45 a.m. to respond to a blaze that had erupted in a kitchen.

The elderly man killed in a Boxing Day fire on the fifth anniversary of his wife’s death was never the same after he lost her, friends say. Otto Spika, a prominent Calgary doctor aged in his mid-80s is being remembered as an eccentric and intelligent man who genuinely cared for his patients, including members of Calgary’s famous Hart wrestling family.

How the trains work, where your drinking water comes from, where your garbage goes — not issues typically at the front of many Calgarians’ minds, at least until given the chance to lift the lid on the infrastructure that makes the city tick.

There was more trouble for the Calgary Zoo gorillas Monday when security upgrades on their enclosure turned into a brief fire scare. A welder was installing more safety bolts on the doors in the back of the enclosure when some straw started to smoulder, said zoo spokeswoman Trish Exton-Parder. He was able to quickly use a fire extinguisher to put out the smouldering in the straw before it actually caught fire, Exton-Parder said, and then the fire department was called as a precaution and to test for carbon monoxide.

A 30-year-old man sustained critical injuries Monday afternoon after getting trapped on a piece of equipment at a building under construction in the Royal Vista business park, in northwest Calgary. Fire crews were called to an industrial area on Royal Vista Drive N.W. at around 4 p.m. after receiving a 911 call that a man was trapped on a lift inside the building, said spokeswoman Carol Henke.

A family of seven escaped a two-alarm fire Monday morning that destroyed the Falconridge bungalow they were renting. Crews were called to the home on Falchurch Crescent N.E. at around 6:45 a.m. after receiving a call from the occupants reporting smoke and fire in the basement.

CALGARY — Neighbours remember Cheralynn Nicholls as someone who would invite them inside to chat over a cup of tea or a meal, while her son and husband monkeyed around with cars outside. The same neighbours watched from a distance Wednesday as flames shot from a dryer vent and smoke blackened windows of the Nicholls’ Varsity bungalow.

CALGARY— A half-metre long snake that gave authorities the slip for nearly a day was trapped Friday afternoon. It was caught in one of 90 traps that were set around a southwest apartment building after a man reported seeing a snake on the loose. The discovery was made while he was unpacking from a recent trip to India.

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